The Irish standard., 1887-09-10
KINGS COUNTY.

a correspondent writes: The Abbey
feale tenants. on the property of w. T.
French, Larchvale, Monoygall, wrote to
their landlord on December last re-
questing all abatement Of 80 per cent.
on half years rent then demanded.
They received a reply promising an
abatement provided all arrears We're
paid up-an impossible condition On
this property. The landlord invited a
depution of the tenants to Limerick
to discuss the matter. The tenants ac-
cordingly appointed December Is, and,
headed by Rev. w. Casey, waited on
the landlord. The result OF the inter-
view was that the landlord would give
no satisfactory abatement. The ten
ants immediately adopted the plan of
campaign Soon after this interview
nine ejectmelits We're served and de-
crees obtained at the Rathkeale March
Sessions, but these proceedings failed
to bring any rents. On the May follow
ing three emergency men were sent by
Mr.. Trench to take care of some farms
from which he had previously evicted
some tenants. The landlord adopted
those tactics no doubt with g view to
coerce the tenants to pay, but finding
they were determined to adhere to The
plan he adopted the more sensible
course of allowing them the abatement
mande,l--zlamely, 80 per cent. ON a
years rent. I need scarcely add that
the landlord had to bear all the law
costs though he strove hard TO screw
them out OF, the tenants.
LIMERICK.
On Sunday, August Z, renlarkabl
demonstration took place at Limerick,
when the Sacerdotal Jubilee of his Holi.-
ness Pope Leo XIII. and the centenary
OF st. Alyhonsus we're celebrated by a
procession Of the Confraternity Of the
Holy Family, which In Limerick is
under the direction of the Redenlptor,
list Fathers. Representatives from
confraternities in the counties of Cork,
Waterford, Kilkenny, Glare and Tip
perary also took part in the demonstra-
ton, and the processionists, as they
walked through the streets from the
Church of St. .Alphonsus to St. John s
Cathedral, sang sacred hymns and re-
cited the Rosary ct the Blessed Virgin
at intervals In the grounds of the
Cathedral an altar was erected, FROM
which the vast concourse Of people
were addressed by His Lordship the
Most Rev. DR.. O'Dwyer.
The savage evictions i'll the County
of Limerick are artificial evictions-
they are political eyictions. It is not
for us to set a limit to the blindness and
brutality of the evictors, but we see
plain proof here Of an external stimu~
lus. Every landlord in Ireland knows
that III a weeks time, when the Land
Bill is passed, registered letter will do
more in the way of eviction than the
Sheriff. with horse, foot and artillery
at his back, can accomplish at present.
Left to himself, the evictor, we are
convinced, would nave waited for the
eviction -,nade-easy clause to help him.
The Government which could bave COM
PEELED him to wait has encouraged him
to proceed. The taxpayer may have a
word to say to this later on. On Tues
day Colonel IAing-Harman confessed
that the eviction on the SINNERS es-
tate of SIX tenants had cost the Treas
.ury close on five hundred pounds; the
amount of rent to be recovered was a
hundred. AS q landlord and a rack
renter himself, this seemed to the gal
lant Colonel most satisfactory condi-
ton of things. when legal processes
had to enforced" he said, 1.-The Gov
ernment conld not be influenced by the